DevOps Lead

Digital, Consulting London, United Kingdom

AND Digital has had an exciting start to the year, so much so that we’re looking to add a DevOps specialist to our team of remarkable ANDi’s.

This role will be key in ensuring we’re getting the best out of our Development Teams and working in the most efficient way!

What’s in it for me?

As a dedicated expert in this field at AND Digital, you’ll have the opportunity to shape your role in a rapidly growing organisation.

You’ll be empowered to lead in this area whilst having a broad range of clients to work across.

You’ll also have the opportunity to vary your role putting on your Developer or Release Manager hat as and when required.

What will I be doing?

This is a client facing (fee earning), delivery role with a mix of advising and implementing
You will be our ambassador and advisor to clients on operational requirements, advising and influencing
You will also act as the champion of continuous development for our client development teams, collaborating with them and providing coaching
You will also be expected to inspire and engage more junior engineers within your club to build their capability and understanding of DevOps and Engineering best practises, to they are enabled to implement better ways of working on the ground
You’ll engage closely with the client technology teams to review current processes and technology, before making your recommendation and making it happen!
You will manage the way forward from there:

Build, improve and maintain our tools for continuous build, automated testing and release management
Work to maintain and improve stability and performance of the infrastructure for clients (and some internal projects)
Work closely with the client development teams to automate, refine and improve processes

Keep up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares ideas
Ensure the necessary environments are in place for the product being delivered (virtual and physical) to support all layers - Dev, QA, Stage, Pre-Production, Live, including the data and integration of external applications.

Am I right for the job?

Previous experience in a DevOps and developer roles in an agile context
Expertise in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
A passion for technology and a love of writing code with a desire to build elegant solutions
Understanding of system administration tasks on some of the following;

Operating systems (e.g. Linux, CoreOS and Windows)
Application stacks (e.g. nginx, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere, Hybris, IIS, .Net, Node.js, Solr)
RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL)
NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak)
Containerisation and microservices (e.g. Docker, rkt)
IaaS and PaaS (e.g. AWS, Openstack, Deis, Kubernetes, Mesos, Rancher)

Experience of programming and scripting (e.g. Bash, Java, Go, Javascript, Powershell)
Experience of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Experience of implementing Infrastructure as Code
Experience configuring and working with monitoring tools (e.g. Newrelic, Sensu, Icinga, Nagios, Zabbix, Unicentre)
Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS)
Experience creating and working with development pipelines using tools such as Git, Jenkins, TFS, Sonarqube, GoCD, Maven, Ant, NPM, Artifactory
Proven experience managing Agile development environments and implementing DevOps best practices and methodologies
Experience in coaching and mentoring your colleagues and peers
Experience of and strong stakeholder management skills in leading collaboration between IT operations and digital delivery teams
You will be able to leverage your experience from a professional services / client facing environment
Be equally comfortable working with one or multiple clients
Strong project management skills
To approach DevOps practices in new and creative way

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